{"id":3483,"date":"2014-07-02T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2014-07-02T10:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T03:41:47","slug":"un-experts-urge-egypt-to-overturn-largest-confirmed-mass-death-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/un-experts-urge-egypt-to-overturn-largest-confirmed-mass-death-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"UN experts urge Egypt to overturn largest confirmed mass death verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The credibility and integrity of the Egyptian justice system has become \u201cdeeply compromised\u201d, a group of United Nations human rights experts today said, urging the Government to impose a moratorium on the death penalty and to offer new and fair trials for 183 people whose death sentences have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe imposition of mass death sentences following blatantly unfair trials and for crimes that may not be punishable by death constitutes a staggering violation of international human rights law,\u201d the UN independent experts said.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called the ruling the largest mass death sentence to be confirmed in Egypt in recent history&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/news\/story.asp?NewsID=48167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The credibility and integrity of the Egyptian justice system has become \u201cdeeply compromised\u201d, a group of United Nations human rights experts today said, urging the Government to impose a moratorium on the death penalty and to offer new and fair trials for 183 people whose death sentences have been confirmed. \u201cThe imposition of mass death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,1985,4697,415,1983,1984,1981,257,4694,1987,1988,254,310,309,1982,1986],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blatantly-unfair-trials","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-human-rights-experts","tag-impose-a-moratorium-on-the-death-penalty","tag-integrity-of-the-egyptian-justice-system","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-office-of-the-high-commissioner-for-human-rights","tag-ohchr","tag-south-africa-today","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-nations-human-rights-experts","tag-violation-of-international-human-rights-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}